Not Another Free Clinic: Silver Spring's TAYA 'Non-Biased' Youth Reproductive Care
A clinic helps teens and young adults who are having sex find the answers and healthcare they need.
Here’s a statistic that’s uncomfortable for some adults: A majority of teens has sex. Guttmacher Institute’s February 2012 fact sheet on teen sexual health reports that 70 percent of teens in America said they had intercourse by their 19th birthday. Despite that, some pediatricians and parents aren’t comfortable talking to teens about sexual and reproductive health, said Molly Love, executive director of Teen and Young Adult (TAYA) Health Connection in Silver Spring. Tucked away on the second floor of a downtown office building, TAYA looks like a private doctor’s office. In reality it’s a nonprofit reproductive health clinic, serving teens and low-income women in the Washington, DC, area, accepting patients only between the ages of 12 …
Brittany Marie
10:17 am on Thursday, October 11, 2012
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I would much rather my tax dollars go to preventative healthcare than unwanted babies and uninsured STD patients. more ›